James Bay
English singer‐songwriter
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at 3:00 you can see his volume pedal, the boss FV-500H
It's that lone pedal to his left on the carpet
At 1:28 into this video of James Bay's pedalboard rundown, his Strymon BigSky reverb pedal can be seen. James Bay says, "The Flint covers sort of the initial... the sort of core reverb. [I'm a] massive fan of reverb. And everybody kept saying 'BigSky' 'BigSky', and eventually I went for it, I've jumped in... it lives up to its name, lives up to everything everybody says about it and after playing through it today I've already started to really sort of bring some of the sounds I really really wanted to life."
He then goes on to play his guitar, so you can hear the reverbs in action.
at 2:55 they talk about "the wonderful analog man bi-chorus"
When asked about the pedals and effects James Bay uses, he replies that he does not use very many. He says:
"I have been using an MXR Carbon Copy delay because I wanted a simple decent go-to delay pedal and I like the modulation button on it. There are loads of great delays, but I can only get so deep or else I'll fall into this endless cycle of options. I also use an [Electro-Harmonix] Holy Grail reverb at times, but the reverb on the Tone King really is pretty beautiful."
"I guess I take that Derek Trucks approach of 'let's just go straight into the amp', because the amp does so much. I don't even do anything with the tone knob on my guitar, and I barely do anything with the reverb. I'm just all the way up and it's about my hands. That's where volume comes from."
Starting around 1:28 into this video of James Bay's pedalboard rundown, his Strymon Flint Tremolo & Reverb pedal can be seen. The signal chain starts with the Flint, then goes into his Strymon BigSky. James Bay says, "The Flint covers sort of the initial- the sort of core reverb."
at 0:20 , at the beginning of the video, you can see the Hum Debugger
In this Instagram photo, James Bay says, "First ever pedal board ... Plank of wood painted black. Proud to call it mine x"
His LR Baggs Venue DI Acoustic Guitar Direct Box and Preamp is the left-most pedal, followed by a Holy Grail Nano, then into a Blackstar HT-Dual Distortion, and finally into a Boss tuner pedal.
At 2:50 they talk about his Archer clean overdrive
In this picture tweeted by James you can see the Boss tuner.
In this picture tweeted by James you can see the MXR Carbon Copy delay pedal.
At 3:00 you can see his polytune 2 on his new pedalboard
at 3:00 you can see his pedalboard swiching system aka G2
at 3:00 you can see his POG2
at 35:02 to see the Spark Mini Booster side Archer
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